Drupal and SPI

Drupal is one of the most powerful CMS out there. Drupal recently to decided to accept donations to cover the cost of the dedicated server and the bandwidth the cost for this is approx 200 Euros per month. Drupal on a average uses approx 100GB data transfer per month. Till now the developers have been paying for this out of their pockets.

Drupal now has a PayPal account for accepting donations. Since people would like to tax reductions on the donated amount Drupal, we are talking to SPI to manage our funds for us. Since they are already a registered charity organization in the United States.

SPI manages funds for porjects like the OpenSource Initiative, GNOME and Debian GNU/Linux.

We have already taken a call on weather SPI is the right choice for us. All the people voted a YES on it.

Some of the task that we still have to complete.

1. Write a draft for the SPI Board Members.
2. Update the community about what we are up to.
3. Put up more information on how people can donate to Drupal

Some more updates about Drupal. There will be a developers conference at FOSDEM2005. Dries, Kjartan, Killes, Steven and other core developers are expected to attend it.